2015 Hugo Awards - My Final Ballot

I've just made a few last additions and changes to my ballot, checked it, and decided that I'm finished! Probably.

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Best Novel:

1. Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie (Orbit US, Orbit UK)
2. Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu (Tor Books)
3. No Award
4. The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison (Tor Books)
5.  Skin Game Jim Butcher (Roc Books)
6.  The Dark Between the Stars Kevin J. Anderson (Tor Books)

Changed my #1 and #2 spots. I've gone back and forth. I loved them both a LOT. Couldn't hardly put either down on the second read-through. A little harder to put Three-Body Problem down, so I initially ranked it first. On further reflection, though, Ancillary Sword didn't have a Big Gaping Problem With Suspension of Disbelief like Three-Body Problem did (with the scientists thinking unusual results mean physics is broken and therefore they must die, instead of thinking perhaps something outside our current ability to measure is acting on their experiment and causing the (for now) inexplicable results just like has happened many many many many many many many many many times in the history of science). So many wonderful ideas though. Ugh .. there's a chance I might switch them again before midnight. We'll see!

Best Novella:

1.  No Award

Best Novelette:

1. No Award
2. "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Lightspeed, April 2014)
3. "The Triple Sun: A Golden Age Tale" Rajnar Vajra (Analog, Jul/Aug 2014)
4.  "Championship B'tok" Edward M Lerner (Analog, Sept 2014)
5.  "The Journeyman: In the Stone House" Michael F. Flynn (Analog, June 2014)
6.  "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium" Gray Rinehart (Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, May 2014)

Best Short Story:

1. No Award
2. “A Single Samurai” by Steven Diamond
3. “On A Spiritual Plain” by Lou Antonelli
4. “Totaled” by Kary English
5. “Turncoat” by Steve Rzasa
6. “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” by John C. Wright

Best Related Work (may rank some of these under No Award; still deciding):

1. No Award

Best Graphic Story:

1. Ms. Marvel
2. Saga
3. No Award
4. Sex Criminals
5. Rat Queens
6. Zombie Nation

Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form):

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Interstellar
3. The Lego Movie
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5. Edge of Tomorrow

Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form):

1.  The Flash: "Pilot"
2.  Doctor Who: "Listen"
3.  Orphan Black: "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried"
4. No Award
5.  Game of Thrones: "The Mountain and the Viper"
6.  Grimm: "Once We Were Gods"

Best Professional Editor (Short Form):

1. No Award

Best Professional Editor (Long Form):

1. Anne Sowards 
2. No Award

Best Professional Artist:
No Vote

There's a lot of cool looking stuff in the Hugo packet, but I can't tell who most of it belongs to! Future Nominated Professional Artists - please label your files or your art with your name when you send it in for the Hugo packet! :)


Best Semiprozine:
No Vote - ran out of time


Best Fanzine:
No Vote - ran out of time


Best Fancast:

1. Tea and Jeopardy
2. Galactic Suburbia
3. No Award

Best Fan Writer:

1. Laura J. Mixon
2. No Award

Best Fan Artist:
No Vote

There's a lot of cool looking stuff in the Hugo packet, but I can't tell who most of it belongs to! Future Nominated Fan Artists - please label your files or your art with your name when you send it in for the Hugo packet! :)


The John W. Campbell Award (not a Hugo):

1. No Award 

A couple of gems, but mostly pretty bleak this year. :(